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Praise for Snakes of St. Augustine
Four Stars from Foreword Reviews Snakes of St. Augustine was released by Regal House Publishing on September 12, 2023. (Order here.)...
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GINGER PINHOLSTER
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- Mar 29, 2022
- 1 min
What is Left After a Pandemic?
Check out my review of Carla Rachel Sameth's darkly humorous collection of pandemic-era poems, What is Left. The review appears on the...
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- Aug 10, 2021
- 1 min
Thank you, Regal House Publishing!
I'm honored and thrilled to work with Regal House Publishing (RHP) -- an independent, traditional publisher with a stellar reputation for...
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- May 15, 2021
- 2 min
Writing Prompt: What Have You Seen With Your Own Eyes?
WASHOUT -- The sea turtle eggs, round and pale as golf balls, gaped from the side of the dune where the overheated, angry ocean had...
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- Dec 23, 2020
- 4 min
Southern Belles and Carpet Buzzers
The fearless woman who helped demolish my garage cabinets was crouched on my staircase, painting the walls when I asked if her partner, a...
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- Nov 14, 2020
- 2 min
Down the Rabbit Hole: Craft Notes
Jake Wolff recently won the Internet. Wolff, a creative writing professor, editor and director of The Florida Review, and author of The...
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- Nov 14, 2020
- 4 min
In Celebration of the Common Riffraff
Looming from her second-floor balcony, the owner confronted me, twitchy as a highlighted chicken. “You weren’t expecting to come inside,...
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- Oct 18, 2020
- 1 min
The FWA Saves 2020
2020 unleashed a global pandemic, wildfires, hurricanes, and many bad DIY haircuts, but on Oct. 17, a nice thing happened. I won a gold...
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- Oct 18, 2020
- 2 min
The Sausage on the Roof
This essay was written while my daughter was still in Nepal: When my boyfriend Mickey first hurled the slice of cooked Italian sausage...
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- Oct 4, 2020
- 6 min
Black Mermaids Matter
Months before the brutal police killing of George Floyd, before the protests when I made a sign saying, “I Can’t Breathe” and "Stop the...
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- May 18, 2020
- 7 min
Crossing by Myself
Editor’s Note: I wrote this travelogue-style essay in November 2018, while visiting my daughter Caroline during her service with Peace...
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- Jan 5, 2020
- 5 min
Writing Prompt: What’s Your Most Cherished Childhood Place?
My friend Alan as a young boy, standing on his uncle's shoulders in Brazil, ready to leap into his future, with many cousins in the...
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- Jul 28, 2019
- 3 min
Writing Prompt: You See a Body of Water ...
Is it a freshwater pond? If so, is the water stagnant and murky, or clear, with light dancing on its surface? Maybe the body of water is...
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- Jul 2, 2019
- 3 min
Me Write Pretty One Day
Whenever I’m learning a new skill – let’s say, how to properly document a sea turtle nest, surf tiny waves, or make toast without burning...
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- Jun 9, 2019
- 2 min
The 13 Moons of Writer's Block
“It’s just that my protagonist doesn’t want her brother to die,” I told a traveling companion at a café in Kathmandu. “I think it might...
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- Jun 9, 2019
- 2 min
Plot Goddess Invents QVC Queen
The struggle was real. After reading my forthcoming novel, City in a Forest, an editor whose opinion I trust (Kim Sheeter) pointed out...
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- Jun 9, 2019
- 1 min
Epic Snake Orgy Cures Writer's Block
In my third novel, Seeing Gethin, my protagonist’s brother is crazy about snakes—brown, red, spotted, striped, harmless, venomous, or...
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- Sep 20, 2018
- 1 min
Why I Was Mean - From Eckerd Review
My goal, in this nonfiction essay, was to provide a first-hand report on what Russ Douthat described in The New York Times as the 1970s...
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- Sep 17, 2018
- 1 min
Finding Mom's Gun - from Gravel Magazine
“You need to find her gun and hide it,” my sister mumbled while our mother, propped in a hospital bed, prattled on about finding Bigfoot....
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- Sep 12, 2018
- 1 min
Tagged - from Atticus Review
Based on my partner’s encounter with U.S. Customs officials at Dulles airport, this essay is a romantic exploration of the discrimination...
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